Cold fragrance and warm jade [Red Mansion Chai Dai]

"That's right." Chongyu nodded, "Speaking of the Miaoling tribe, I have heard something else recently."

"what?"

"Didn't I order people to go to Qianxiang Country to trade with them a while ago? It happened that Qianxiang Country ordered people to send tributes, and some of my people came back with big news." Chongyu smiled slightly. It's just that the eyes are cold.

"The Miaoling tribe has always been hunting for a living, while the status of women in the Qianxiang Kingdom is extremely high. Even now, the ruler of the country is a female king. There should be no intersection between the two. Occasionally, some people from the Miaoling tribe go to the Qianxiang Kingdom. , and won’t stay for too long. People who favored me said before they came back that they saw many people from the Miaoling tribe in Qianxiang Kingdom, and even many people from other tribes on the grassland. "

"For this reason, in the name of looking for goods, they also traveled around Qianxiang Country and some neighboring small countries, and finally found that many grassland tribes headed by the Miaoling tribe were frequently traveling to and from small countries such as Qianxiang Country. What are you going to do?"

Wei Ruolan was surprised, and hurriedly said: "No wonder these days are not the days when those small countries pay tribute, but Qianxiang Kingdom said that their queen's birthday specially sent us tributes, and even the amount of tributes they sent was quite a lot! They want to take this opportunity Do you want to lower our vigilance? Many civil and military officials have heard about the tribute delivery this time, and they all praised the queen of Qianxiang Kingdom for being sensible. The wind of a great country."

If it is true what those people said, if you give Qian Xiangguo a gift in return, that gift might be even more valuable than what Qianxiang Kingdom paid tribute to.

"That's all." Chongyu shook his head slightly, "At any rate, some things sent by Qianxiang Kingdom are not available in our country. We only exchange ordinary treasures, even if the apparent value is higher than the things they sent, we It doesn't necessarily mean that you don't take advantage of it. At least for those people in the palace, don't they get some good things for their own use or for rewarding others? Isn't this brilliance more important than others?"

Wei Ruolan was a little unsure whether Chongyu was telling the truth or being sarcastic.

Chongyu didn't say much, and changed the subject and said: "I thought it was the idea of ​​the Miaoling tribe before, and I was thinking about whether to find a way to let the king of Nan'an County send someone to take advantage of the cold winter. It is quite convenient to fight in the north, so he sent his men to fight in the north first, but unexpectedly, it happened that the Miaoling tribe he wanted to collude with."

"Huh?" Wei Ruolan obediently changed the subject, "Then do you think these are the arrangements of Nan'an County King, or the Miaoling tribe's own decision?"

Chongyu sneered and said: "Naturally, I prefer Nan'an County King to be pecked by an eagle this time. Otherwise, the person who should contact Qianxiang Country and other countries should be the person sent by Nan'an County King. Even if he is worried about himself His actions were discovered, and the Miaoling tribe should not be allowed to act. The king of Nan'an thought he was the fisherman in the fight between the snipe and the clam, but he didn't know that there was another fisherman after him who wanted to be a fisherman!"

Once internal turmoil breaks out, and someone from the Miaoling tribe will have penetrated into the hinterland of the country, then the members of the Miaoling tribe who are still abroad will rise up and shout, and other small countries around will respond together...

With the strength of the Miaoling tribe, even if he completes the unification of the grassland, he will not be able to occupy and rule a big country.

But he wants to unite with other small countries and divide a small part of each country. Even if the king of Nan'an supports the crown prince in the end, he can still keep the country, but he can't keep the whole country.

Wei Ruolan has also considered the pros and cons clearly.

He frowned even tighter, and said in a deep voice: "This matter is of great importance, and it is no longer up to you and me to decide. Chongyu, another day... no, tomorrow! Tomorrow, Master Lin will rest and take a bath, and you will let Master Lin take you Go see the Third Prince."

One day later, things will be more variable.

They must hurry up.If it weren't for the deep night at this time, he would have even wished to take Chongyu and call Lin Ruhai to the Third Prince's Mansion immediately.

Here, Wei Ruolan and the others were making intensive preparations, and they didn't dare to make too much noise, lest they be discovered.

But Daiyu was invited to Rongguo Mansion early by Jiamu, and she was asked to stay for a few more days.

Xiangyun was also invited over, and the Rong Mansion was instantly more lively than before.

After the completion of the Provincial Courtyard, Yuanchun had a decree to send it to Rongfu, so that Baoyu and others could choose a house to live in, so as to prevent the large courtyard from being abandoned after being built, and it must be taken care of after all, so like Dai Although Yu and the others mostly lived in Lin's family to go to school, they also had their own houses in the Grand View Garden.

But after all the girls didn't live in the garden for a long time, if more people were not arranged to come in, the garden would still appear to be deserted.It happened that Jia Lan had already passed the children's examination, so Jia Zheng allowed a place in Jia Lan's garden so that he could concentrate on studying.

Chongyu wanted to use Wei Ruolan's marriage to test Daiyu earlier, he thought that there would be some results in the past two days, the matter of being a foreigner was more urgent, and Daiyu was packing up and going to Rongguo Mansion, so he didn't have too much time To pay attention to these, I had to find Xiangling in private and ask Xiangling to help pay more attention to Daiyu's body.

Xiangling recognized Mo Zongliang as her adoptive father, and not only learned poetry from Mo Zongliang, but also learned some medical skills from Mo Zongliang. A prescription can be judged whether it is good or bad, and with her help to keep an eye on Daiyu, Chongyu can rest assured.

Coincidentally, in the past few days, there were other guests in the Rong Mansion.

The Jiangnan Zhen family, who had always been friends with the Jia family, specially sent several men and wives to Rongfu with their belongings.It would have been enough for grandmas and wives to greet them, but it happened that Baoyu returned home after going out to play, and wanted to greet his mother and grandma, so he ran into the mother-in-law from Zhen's family.

Baoyu heard those women say that there was another Baoyu in Zhen's family in the south of the Yangtze River, who looked exactly like him, and he was already in a daze. Changing clothes, but I was still thinking about it on the road, and almost ran into someone when I turned.

Shadows appeared and moved away, and there was the sound of boots rubbing against the ground.

Only then did Baoyu come back to his senses, quickly looked to the side, cupped his hands and apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, I was only thinking about things just now..."

As he spoke, Fang saw clearly that the person he almost ran into was Xue Biao?

Baoyu hurriedly smiled and asked, "Brother Xue? When I wanted to play with you recently, I always heard that your family members said that you are not free. Why did you come to my house today?"

"It's really not too much time." Xue Biao said with a smile, "I also sneaked out of my busy schedule today. I sent my sister over and met Lian's second brother. Aren't I ready to go out? But Baoyu, why are you in such a hurry? What's the matter?" Thinking of things so ecstatically?"

Baoyu didn't bother to talk about Zhen Baoyu, and hurriedly asked, "Sister Bao has come? Is sister Lin here too?"

Recently, Baochai and Daiyu often get together, especially when they come to Jia's house, they ride in the car together, and go to pay their respects to the elders together. Like in the past, He Baoyu complained that Baoyu played with Sister Lin every day, and didn't pay much attention to her when she came, but only said that Sister Bao and Sister Lin were together all day long, and it was rare to be with her.

For this reason, now Baoyu only hears that Baochai has arrived, and he thinks of Daiyu in his heart.

"Miss Lin hasn't come yet." Xue Biao hurriedly grabbed Baoyu who wanted to pass him to the Grand View Garden, "Even my sister is not in the garden, but went to find Sister Feng."

Xue Biao knew very well that the former Wang Xifeng was more or less wary of Baochai, and was also worried that her status in Jia's family would decline after the golden and jade marriage came true, and because of Mrs. Wang's request, she was more or less afraid that the family's funds would not turn over from time to time. Kai, occasionally the Xue family found out about the need to sell the land, and they refused to marry their daughter in. For this reason, they were always afraid that Baochai would find out more about the Jia family's affairs, which led to some secret discord between the two.

However, recently, Wang Xifeng has been very enthusiastic about Baochai, and most of them are sincere.Even Xue Biao felt that Wang Xifeng paid more and more attention to him.Xue Biao only came here this time to send Baochai to Rongfu, but he has come to Rongfu quite a few times during this period.Wang Xifeng once invited him, and Jia Lian also invited him... Both the couple have taken a fancy to his business skills, and they are related to the Xue family's royal business family and Xinxing Lin's business firm, so they also asked him for help.

Although Xue Biao didn't understand why the two were husband and wife, he asked him to separate. All he could do was to report to Chongyu one by one, and then Chongyu made a decision, and finally passed Chongyu's answer to the two.

Fortunately, Chongyu didn't set up a problem with this matter. As long as Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian's demands were not excessive, they agreed readily, and Xue Biao didn't make it difficult.

Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian ordered their families secretly, just like taking some of the Xue family's buddies, and bringing more people on the caravan's business trip.

Ordinary commercial firms may be worried that if there are too many people to bring, their goods will have no characteristics, and the profits they can make will be less, but Chongyu has always asked the Lin family firm to only sell the most rare or rare things, and other times they are more on the lookout for goods. Skilled craftsmen want to establish their own craftsmen's shop, but they don't have to worry about others sharing the profits of ordinary commodities.

But Xue Biao didn't know why Wang Xifeng went to Baochai.

Especially this time, Wang Xifeng invited him to his home first, and then asked him to go back and ask Baochai to come to Rongfu to discuss matters two days in advance, so Baochai would leave earlier than Daiyu.

It is even more impossible for Baoyu to know what happened between Xifeng and Baochai. He only heard that the relationship between the two was good, and he was also in a good mood.

Anyway, Daiyu is not there, so he is interested in talking about Zhen Baoyu in the south of the Yangtze River.After all, he invited Xue Biao again.

However, Xue Biao really has important business to do and has no time to accompany Baoyu, so Baoyu can only return to Yihong Courtyard with regret.

When he went out to play, he drank with friends.He was startled by Xue Biao when he was walking before, so he woke up a little bit drunk, but now he returned to the Yihong Courtyard lit with incense, and listened to the singing of the girls, he gradually became tired.

At the beginning, he still didn't want to sleep, he leaned on the table, propped his head with his hands, or someone pushed him, and then he went to bed in a daze, his coat and shoes had to be taken off, his eyes were closed, and he fell into a deep sleep.